Armed Forces and Ministry of Defence: Dental Services

(asked on 14th March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many whole-time equivalent dentists are employed by (a) his Department, (b) the armed forces, (c) the Royal Air Force, (d) the British Army and (e) the Royal Navy.


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Andrew Murrison
This question was answered on 17th March 2023

The table below provides the numbers of Dental Officers in the UK Armed Forces, by Service, as at 1 October 2022:

Table 1. Trained/Trade Trained Regular and Trained FR20 Reserve Dental Officers in the UK Armed Forces, by Service, as at 1 October 2022

Total

Royal Navy

Army

Royal Air Force

Total

180

40

100

40

Regular/Full-Time

140

40

70

30

FR20/Part-Time

40

-

30

10

The above figures are for uniformed military personnel only and have been rounded to 10 for presentational purposes; numbers ending in "5" have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. It is not possible to provide data for Volunteer Reserves in terms of whole-time equivalency.

The table below provides the numbers of Ministry of Defence Civilian Dental Practitioners by Top Level Budget Holder (TLB) and Headcount and Full Time Equivalence (FTE) as at 1 October 2022:

Table 2: MoD Civilian Dental Practitioners by TLB and Headcount and FTE

01 October 2022

TLB

Headcount

FTE

UK Strat Com

102

86

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